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Tax Officials Release Analysis of Revenue Benefits for Cash-Strapped State; Legalization Bill Pending
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- Amazing... Liberal dems get into power and all of a sudden pots important. i hope they do make it legal as we will need it when the tax bill come due.
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- The very scientist whose studies the government uses to claim that "marijuana is dangerous to the lungs", Dr. Donald Tashkin, says the government is mis-using his studies, and Dr. Tashkin also says that not only does marijuana NOT seem to cause cancer, but that it seems to have ANTI-cancer properties. Marijuana SMOKE contains CHEMICALS that are known to be carcinogenic. This is why the Government makes its claims. But Dr. Tashkin says that the presence of these chemicals does not seem to cause cancer in marijuana users, the way they do to tobacco users. Which means: Marijuana's unique chemical makeup includes both carcinogenic and anti-carcinogenic chemicals, but the carcinogenic chemicals so far seem to have no effect, in all the studies on cannabis done thus far, in relation to its effect on lungs and lung cancer. So there would be no additional lung cancer. As far as DUI deaths go, marijuana is a distraction, and all distractiosn are dangerous. But unlike alcohol, marijuana has no effect on motor coordination or cognition. Marijuana is safer than drinking 2 espressos before driving. And it's a thousand times safer than driving-while-texting, or driving-while-celltalking. So yeah: don't drive and smoke pot... but at the same time, don't pretend its as bad as drunk driving... concentrate on all the pathetic people who use cell phones and text... since they're the truly dangerous ones. Lock em up for 20 years too!
The government/religion-sponsored myths about marijuana cause people to think it has dangers that do not really exist.
The only people against legalizing marijuana are loser-hard-drug-addicts who blame pot instead of their own pathetic selves.... and people who have worldviews based on domination and control (like cops and pastors and neoconservatives). - Reply to this comment
- The People who are against legalizing marijuana (and in favor of jailing its growers and buyers) are all a bunch of Predatory Leaders and Dumbsh**t Followers of those very Leaders.
They tend to be misguided Parents, Pastors, Cops, and ex-Meth Addicts, and that's pretty much it, with the Followers. As for the Leaders... they tend to be neoconservatives (who are anything but conservative).
The paradigm of Authoritarian Control must die. Along with all the idiots who support such a paradigm, causing massive suffering across America, for no good reason.
Marijuana MUST be legalized, if we want a legitimate government, a legitimate culture, and a legitimate way of handling society's pursuit of happiness.
Legalize marijuana, and use the money saved to jail predators.
Marijuana users are not predators.
But those who want to jail them, sure are. (Along with rapists and thieves and conmen). - Reply to this comment
- Or we could just start with allowing it be upto the States to individually legalize it first.
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- Which makes me wonder... just how much tax revinue could the Crystal Cathedral or some of these "Mega-churches" would bring in?
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- I like the sound of that... :o)
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- Amen to taxing churches.
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- I do not think thats a good position on letting people drive stoned. Give me the choice to hire a drinker or a pot head, i'll take the pot head any day of the week and twice on sunday, but I'll fire either one if they are under the effects at work.
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- amen to fairy tales.
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- I like mushrooms, but I really dig the san pedro cactus down here in Arizona.
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- It was reported today that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been keeping track of deaths by various drugs. What they found was that, over a certain time period, abuse of prescription drugs was directly responsible for 10,000 or so American deaths. Over the same time period, marijuana was responsible for no deaths... zero.
It's time, finally, for America to get it right. People are dying because we have our priorities wrong. Marijuana should be legal, taxed, and legally controlled as to potency. That would free up major resources to help treat and save the thousands who are dying of legal prescription drugs. - Reply to this comment
- Ok then. The dogma drones don't want the revenue from weed, let's tax their dogma centers instead!
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- Never going to happen it makes to much sense and the reactionary right wing nuts will not allow something that makes to much sense.
Of course after 2010 elections then it will not matter they will face another blood bath and that should end the regin of terror form the reactionary right wing. - Reply to this comment
- all this talk is making me want to head to Chihuahua to see my Peyote patch...
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- The mild euphoria from weed is nowhere potent enough for me to choke down dogma....mushrooms might not even be strong enough.
I have a real aversion to fairy tales...... - Reply to this comment
- I have to downright laugh at all the tight-assed repubs posting here about increased highway deaths, etc. that would follow legalization.
Funny, but they pay no mind to statistics for states which have decriminilized weed which show no statistical increase in highway deaths - maybe because it undercuts their argument completely.
If you repubs really want to talk highway deaths, let's illegalize booze which kills about 25,000 each year on the highway and legalize weed which does not. - Reply to this comment
- no no no.... too much.....
pace yourself.... - Reply to this comment
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- The mild euphoria from weed is nowhere potent enough for me to choke down dogma....mushrooms might not even be strong enough.
I have a real aversion to fairy tales......
- The mild euphoria from weed is nowhere potent enough for me to choke down dogma....mushrooms might not even be strong enough.
- ...maybe on mushrooms I could take all that fairy tale crapola.
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- by formrusmcsgt July 15, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
You're a better man than I.
I can't even take dogma stoned..... LOL
made for interesting fire and brimstone sermons... - Reply to this comment
- The Canadian government did a comprehensive study on weed use in 2007 and found no increase in cancer, stroke, or heart disease among regular users.
Do your homework. - Reply to this comment
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